I learned something interesting this week from Julia’s (JiuJiu) blog: the child chess prodigy who they made a film about (Searching for Bobby Fischer) is a brown belt under Marcelo Garcia.
Huh. I had no idea.
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He’s now a black belt: got promoted last week, IIRC. 😉
Yep! Just about to post that!
you should check out his book “art of learning.” it talks about his transition from chess to martial arts, and eventually bjj. the book changed the way i approach training!
That book is amazing.